Though a 2010 article by the Wall Street Journal debunked the statistical advantage of bye weeks, coaches continue to welcome the time off.

In 2015, Duke’s David Cutcliffe had this to say heading into bye after an Oct. 10 victory at Army, according to John Watson for The Devil’s Den.

It’s a good time for an open date coming off some really physical football games. We got pretty beat up at Army last week. So we’ve got combination of trying to get people better physically, done some of that, and trying to also – we need a lot of work and a lot of things to try and become a good football team. So we’ve had three good days of work, and now we’re to give them a few days off where coaches can go recruit.

A week later, after the bye, on Oct. 24, Duke traveled to Virginia Tech and beat the Hokies 45-43 in quadruple overtime. It marked only the second time in history that the Blue Devils had won in Blacksburg.

Take a look at this season’s biggest winners and losers in bye weeks. It’s another caveat of college football scheduling that can ultimately make a big difference.

Alabama has had a bye coming into its annual clash with LSU since 2013. The Tigers, on the other hand have enjoyed a week off before playing the Crimson Tide since 2010.

Interestingly, LSU went 2-1 vs. Alabama in the regular season from 2010-12 (when it was the only team with the bye coming into the game) vs. its 0-3 mark since 2013 (when both teams had the week off prior to the game).

Of the 10 FBS conferences, only two consistently offer its members two bye weeks in 2016—the Big 12 and the Sun Belt. They are also the only two leagues without a conference title game, meaning they can stretch their regular-season schedules into Week 14. That’s when the rest of the FBS is set to conduct their conference championships.

Six of the ten Big 12 members double-up on bye weeks in 2016. That’s 60 percent of the league getting an extra week off. The exceptions are Iowa State, Kansas, Texas, and Texas Tech, all with only one in-season bye apiece.

Wisconsin is the only Big Ten West member that has to face Michigan and Ohio State in cross-division play, both listed in the Top Ten in the Coaches’ preseason poll. The only upside is it gets a week off between the two.

Badgers’ second-year head coach Paul Chryst is 5-6 all-time off a bye week and 0-2 vs. the Top 10.

The second of the Week 2 schools, Memphis warms up vs. FCS Southeast Missouri State before pausing. Then it’s Kansas, Bowling Green, and Ole Miss before playing its seven conference games to close out the season.

The fourth program to have a late-break, Miami of Ohio gets a bye between a road trip to Buffalo and a home stand with Ball State. The Redhawks are a combined 2-8 vs. the two schools in the last five meetings.

The Spartans open up at home vs. FCS Furman, take the week off and then travel to Notre Dame, the first of 11-straight Power opponents. The carousel doesn’t stop until Nov. 26 when MSU wraps up the regular-season at Penn State.